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" Along the way I have been able to choose some themes which ask questions - not necessarily force a message on anyone, but at least invite the audience to question things: jury service, dignity in dying, Ireland - and not least because they force me to ask myself questions. Where do I stand? "

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Julie Walters

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Now

Think

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" I'm more selective now I've got a family. I don't want to work all the time. My daughter's 12; I don't want to miss out on her life. Soon she'll be a teenager; she won't want me around. "

Julie Walters

Daughter

Time

" I was having my teens in my 30s. "

Julie Walters

Having

Teens

" I remember Michael saying, 'Rich and famous? It's much better to be just rich'. I didn't quite get it to begin with. But he's right. You lose anonymity. I say to my family that you've no idea until you lose it how precious anonymity is. "

" Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of. "

" I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive. "

" I'm massively talented, and very, very beautiful in person; the public don't really realise that. "

" My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want. "

" There were all us baby boomers who had a grammar school education, started to learn, then went on the pill, the whole thing, and so there are today a lot more women writers, editors, producers, and so a lot more women's stories. God, the BBC's practically run by women. "

" I went through bits of the 60s and thought myself a bit of a hippy. "

" Debate is so much better than denial. "

" I don't want to give up acting - it's what I am. "

Julie Walters

Give

Acting

" I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell. "

" I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her. "

Julie Walters

Mother

Past

" There is this idea that appealing to youth is the only way forward. But that is no longer the case. Youth is not everything. Now we have all the baby-boomers in their 60s, like me, who are actively engaged in life - we're not retiring, we're not just being put out to grass once we hit 60. "

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Grass

Youth

" It's getting better generally, daily, especially in TV, for women in acting; and age and looks count less. As more women come into the business. Change of any sort takes a long time to happen. "

" Some of the most interesting questions needing to be asked today can best be asked on television, or on stage, and they can be wonderful, great dramas, but they won't necessarily be blockbusters. "

" Some people have a terrible stretch between family and work. It is a difficult thing to achieve. "

" We have to take risks with art. If we don't, it all becomes a bit boring. "

" I'll tell you how it happened. The phone rang. Paul, my agent, goes, 'Would you like to play Meryl Streep's?' I said, 'Yeeees! I'll do it, whatever it is.' He said, 'It's Mamma Mia!.' I said, 'Oh no, which character? The fat friend? "

" It's getting better but men still earn more and there are more jobs for them. Ageism is a big thing. Parts for women disappear as you get older. "

" You can't help but feel a little bit like a mother to the younger cast members. "

Julie Walters

Mother

You

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